Chiming in to second this, Pump Six and Other Stories left me with a deep, deep sense of dread after I finished reading it. Highly recommended, such an underrated collection.
As a foreigner, I'm super interested but somewhat lacking in knowledge on this subject. Could you expand on this being the repercussions of the bailout? I felt scammed when I read about it and my country wasn't even very heavily affected by the crisis (I was a wee lad back then though).
You can get a $15 hot air station and it's fine for getting quite a lot done! Look for clones of the Atten 858D. And come say hi in #electronics on Libera :)
Hi! I've spent the past few weeks rebuilding my web framework with a bunch of new stuff and I'd love to hear what you all think! It's got fine-grained reactivity but tries to stay as close to the DOM as possible (all methods work with HTMLElement and standard JS features) but still provide an easy-to-use API, and fits in under 5kb gzipped. A lot of the methods and utils can also be used on the server, though there isn't really anything SSR-specific yet.
And https://send.djazz.se automatically performs the conversion for you with kepubify and sends it to your ereader! No affiliation, just a happy camper chiming in
So, the website is essentially an HTTP interface for managing an MQTT broker. You create an account, make a "room" (application concept, not part of mqtt), and then put your account name and the room secret phrase into the device (it throws up a captive portal). The device then uses these to connect to the broker to an MQTT topic that's sha256(secret) and from there it's just simply passing messages between devices.
McDonnell Douglas seems to have gotten it done, from a quick skim of [1]. It appears they ran out of funding and the program was cancelled. According to the same article,
> Elon Musk stated that the SpaceX Falcon 9 development was "... continuing the great work of the DC-X project."
It feels like a lot of people in these threads form their opinions of what desktop Linux is like these days based on one poor experience from back in 2005.